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STATE OF ALABAMA, 

Department of Archives and History^ 

TOHMAS J.^- OWEN, DiRKCTOR. 















PROGRAM AND SELECTIONS 
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OF THE 








ANNIVERSARY of THE DAY 
ON WHICH ALABAMA WAS 
ADMITTED TO THE VNION 








DECEMBER 14, 1903 














FOR VSE IN THE SCHOOLS 
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PROGRAM AND SELECTIONS 

FOK CELEBRATION OF THE 

ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OX Y\ HICH 

ALABAMA WAS ADMITTED 

TO THE UNION 

IlECEMBEK 14, 1903 




FOR USE IN THE .SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA 



ISSUED BT THE 
n" IOl U 'O-YA ex. DEPABTMENT OF EBTJCATION 



MONTQOMERy, ALA.: 

PRESS OF THE BROWN PRINTING CO. 

1903 



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THE VALUE OF HISTORY. 



To every country its own history is of prime importance. Upon 
this, its national cliaracter and its national sentiments depend. 
Patriotism, the first of civic virtues, can have no intelligent basis, 
beyond a blind instinct, save in a just appreciation of the excellences 
which have marked the career of a country; — of the services, suf- 
ferings, and devotion of its sons: of the justice, beauty and utility 
of its institutions; of its adaptation to the wants of civilized so- 
ciety, and of the lessons of heroism, philanthropy, and intellect'.ial 
and moral grandeur which its annals present. How essential then, 
to every State or nation which aspires to be more than a mere 
Sahara in history, that its records should be compiled and embodied, 
and its chronicles, vivified and embellished by the touches of genius, 
' — be rendered imperishable monaments for future ages. — Alexander 
B. Meek, Romantic Passages in Houfhicestern History, pp, 74-75. 



)£C 28 1903 
D.ofD, 



SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. 



Tn presenting the program and selections which i'ollow, I desire 
to call your attention to the importance of the observance of special 
days as a part of school work. It is an essential part of such work, 
and in some States it is so recognized by law. 

"The good of pupils demands an occasional change. The ordinary 
public school branches become uninteresting and irksome, unless 
accompanied by the inculcation of moral truths, aesthetic princi- 
ples, and patriotic sentiments. While every lesson in the daily 
studies may suggest some idea not contained in the text-book, It 
has come to be considered a necessity that special attention should 
be given to the teaching of aesthetics, morality, and patriotism, by 
the observance of the anniversaries of notable occurrences. 

Such occasions should be the means of bringing together patrons, 
neighbors, and friends, that everybody may be made to participate 
in the exercises, and to partake of the interest, enthusiasm, and 
fraternal feeling which always come from the mingling of people 
at such meetings." 

The history of our State is a subject which must appeal with 
peculiar force to all, and its birthday, the day of its passing from 
a territorial condition to Statehood, should be cherished by a for- 
mal observance of its annual recurrence. The celebration of this 
anniversary should be made the occasion for stimulating pupils and 
visitors to higher patriotic ideals. No better opportunity can be 
found for the cultivation of State pride. 

Probabl\ the first celebration of this anniversary was observed 
Dec. 14, 1899, by the Birmingham Woman's Club, under the direction 
of Mrs. W. E. Sorsby. Each succeeding year has witnessed a like 
celebi'ation in Birmingham, the result of Mrs. Sorsby's zeal. The 
suggestion for a regular anniversary celebration was formally en- 
dorsed by the Alabama Educational Association at its meeting in 
1903. The program here presented is the work of a committee of 
that body, assisted by the Department of Education, and by the De- 
partment of Archives and History. 

Prompted by the feeling that all teachers will, when possible, 
observe the anniversar>, the following program and selections are 
given for their guidance. 

It is suggested that each school provide a large State flag, as 
well as a number of sm.all State flags. The school room, or rooms, 
should be decorated with flowers, with which the national colors 
should be intermingled. The program should be followed as far 
as possible, although the thoughtful teacher may find it advisable 
to make variations. 

Information will be cheerfully supplied on any special subjects 
of inquiry. 






Montgomery. Ala., Oct. 31, 1903. 



Superintendent of Education. 



ALABAMA. 

Extract from speech written by William Dorsey Jelks. 



You need not doubt Alabama. 

Her past record is an enviable one. The deeds of her sons are 
written on History's pages and are an inspiration to those who 
come after them and for all time. In civil life, since Monmouth 
and Yorktown, our sires have borne their proper share of the young 
republic's responsibilities and reaped its distinctions. They were 
rebels from King George's government, and beat back the red-coats 
at King's Mountain and Trenton, and on a hundred fields. In an 
after-struggle, in a Titanic contest, which shook the world and 
covered the flowers of the smiling earth with the red stains of 
their rich blood, our sires pointed the path to Glory and led t,he 
way; our tearful mothers the while holding on to hope and cheer- 
ing back to the conflict the weakening line. No more magnificent 
spectacle has the historian painted in all the annals of time. We 
are well-born! * * * ••• 

You need not doubt our hills. In their fruitful depths lie 
mineral riclies unequalled, and Nature has been so kind as to plant 
together, in most loving as ociation, all the minerals necessary to makf' 
perfect steel and in quantities sufficient to build the navies of the 
world, to armor all the ships of commerce for all the seas, link all 
the States together in a hundred steel bands and build a thousand 
cities. There are riches for us and for those who are to come after 
us. Prodigal as the sons of men may be, a thousand years and 
much of this vast wealth will never have known the voice of pick 
or shovel! * * * 

But the soil, the soil is our mother! It shall feed us. The 
delving for minerals, the black handling of their rough into finished 
product, the felling and conversion of forests may care for the few, 
but the many must look to an intelligent comprehension of the 
needs of the soil and a faithful and energetic application of such 
needs for their material wants. It is the ripened harvest and the 
sweet fruits of our field that must feed, clothe, shelter and care 
for our army of men, women and children. Here are indeed riches 
in Alabama! No spot on earth is more favored. When we have 
learned how the soil may be preserved and not lost, how the land 
should be dug and sown and reaped, a very few acres, bursting 
with the harvest, will furnish the family defiance to croaking care 
and to want, unfelt. * • • 



But minerals, in whatever profusion they may lie, form no 
State; industries, though the skies be black from the smoke of 
many furnaces, constitute no State; lands, though they were as 
rich as those on which Joseph farmed in the olden time and the 
climate as sweet as the air which floats over "Araby, the blest," con- 
stitute no State. Men and women constitute a State; it is their 
virtue, their intelligence, their strength and their high-mindedness 
which make it great. Whatever material riches any given sec- 
tion may boast, it is accursed if it be peopled by intellectual, moral, 
and physical weaklings! 

The State's richest promise lies in the school boys and the school 
girls, with their shining morning faces. They are "the rose and 
the expectancy of the fair S'ate." If they have high ideals, if they 
promise themselves to be something and to do something, they may 
write any history they choose for the m_agnificent old Common- 
wealth of Alabama. 

The unusual effort now being m_ade by the State to furnish com- 
petent schools in every locality is with a view of preparing the 
young for useful citizenship in this most blessed of governments. 
The fathers were not so favored; they rescued the wilderness from 
the wild beasts and the wilder savage, and organized a society for 
their children to en:-oy, fiightfng back, all the while, a night of 
ignorance by the aid of the humble light of pine fires in cabins 
more humble s*ill. Their virtues, patience and patriotism were well 
nigh uselessly employed, if they have failed to teach their descend- 
ants to follow and improve upon the example. No such day has 
come to this State before; knowledge for the asking, opportunities 
at every door and the world crying out for men and women who 
are not intellectual, physical and moral paupers. There is a wide 
open door of Hope for every brave and struggling youth. * * • 



ALABAMA DAY. 



Commemorative of the Adra'ssion of the State into tli^e Union, 
December 14, 1819. 



PROGRAM. 

(The numbers here given corresponrt with the numbers of the 
selections.) 

L. Song, "Alabama." (words by Miss Julia S. Tutwiler) .... 

By the School. Followed by a 

I . Salute to the Flag of Alabama 



3. Reading of Resolution of Congress Admitting Alabama 

into the Federal Union. Dec. 14, 1819.... By the Teacher. 

4. RecilaUon. "Land of the South" A. B. Meek 

By a girl or young lady. 

5. Summary of Alabama History, prepared by Hon. Joel C. 

DuBose To be read by the Teacher. 

6. Declamation. Extract from the address of William L. 

Yancey in 'he Secession Convention of Alabama. 

Jan. 1 1. 1861 By a boy. 

7 . Song, "Dixie" By the School. 

8. Recitation. John Trotwood Moore's "Emma Sansom". 

By a girl. 

9 . Song, "Help It On" By the School. 

10. Short address on some historical or educational topic. 

By a speaker to be selected by the Teacher. 

(This is optional. In no case should it exceed 15 minutes in length.) 

11. Declamation — Extract from speech written by William 

Dorsey Jelks By a boy. 

12 . Song, "America'' By the School. 



1. ALABAMA. 



BY MISS JULIA S. TUTWILER. 



OUR STATE SO.XG ADOPTED I3Y THE PITULIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE. 

Air — Harxvell, or the Austrian Islational Hymn. 



Alabama. Alabama, 

We will aye be true to thee. 

From thy Southern shore where groweth, 

By the sea thy orange tree. 

To thy Northern vale where floweth. 

Deep and blue thy Tennessee, 

Alabama, Alabama. 

We will aye be true to thee! 

Broad the S'ream whose name thou bearest; 

Grand thy Bigbee rolls along; 

Fair thy Coosa — Tallapoosa; 

Bold thy Warrior, dark and strong; 

Goodlier than the land tha*: Moses 

Climbed lone Nebo's Mount to see, 

Alabama. Alabama 

We will aye be true to thee! 

From thy prairies broad and fertile, 
Where the snow-white cotton shines, 
To the hills where coal and iron 
Hide in thy exhaustless mines, 
Strong-nrmed miners — sturdy farmers; 
Loyal hearts whate'er we be, 
Alabama. Alabama, 
We will aye be true to thee! 

From thy quarries where the marble 
AVhite as that of Faros gleams. 
Waiting ''ill thy sculptor's chisel. 
Wake to life thy poet's dreams; 
For not only v/ealth of nature. 
Wealth of mind hast thou in fee. 
Alabama Alabama. 
We will aye be true to thee! 



5. Where the perfumed south-wind whispers, 
Thy magnolia groves among, 

Softer than a mother's kisses, 
Sweeter than a mother's song; 
Where the golden jasmine trailing. 
Wooes the treasure-laden bee, 
Alabama, Alabama, 
We will aye be true to thee! 

6. Brave and pure thy men and women. 
Better this than corn and wine. 
Make us worthy. God in heaven. 

Of this goodly land of thine; 
Hearts as open as our doorways. 
Liberal hands and spirits free. 
Alabama, Alabama, 
We will aye be true to thee! 

7. Little, little, can I give thee, 
Alabama, mother mine; 

But that lit'le — hand, brain, spirit, — 
All I have and am are thine. 
Take, O take the gift and giver. 
Take and serve thyself with me, 
Alabama, Alabama! 
I will aye be true to thee. 



II. SALUTE TO THE FLAG OF ALABAMA. 



"The flag of the State of Alabama shall be a crimson cross of 
St. Andrew on a field of white. The bars forming the cross snal^ 
be not less than six inches broad, and must extend diagona'!/ 
across the flag, from side to side." — Code of Alabama. 1896, Vol. I, 
Section 3751. 

The words of the salute are: 

We give Our Heads! and Our Hearts! to Oiir Country! — One 
Country! One Language! One Flag! 

The manner of the execution is as follows: 

The pupils having been assembled and being sea*^ed, and the flag 
borne by the standard-bearer being in front of school, at the signal 
(either by a chord struck on the piano, or in the absence of a piano, 
from a bell) each scholar seizes the seat, preparatory to rising. 

Second Signal — The whole school rises quickly, as one person, 
each one standing erect and alert. 

Third Signal — The right arm is extended, pointing directly at 
the flag; as the flag-bearer should be on the platform where all can 
see the colors, the extended arm will be slightly raised above a 
horizontal line. 

Fourth Sign.\l — The arm is bent so as to touch the forehead 
lightly with the tip of the fingers of the right hand. The motion 
should be quick, but graceful, the elbow being kept down and not 
allowed to "'stick out" to the right. As the fingers touch the fore- 
head, each pupil will exclaim with a clear voice, "We give our 
Heads!" — emphasizing the word heads. 

Fifth Signal — The right hand is carried quickly to the left side 
and placed flat over the heart, with the words: "and our Hearts!" 
uttered after the movement has been made. 

Sixth SiGXAL--The right hand is allowed to fall quickly but 
easily, to the right side; as soon as the motion is accomplished all 
will say, "to our Country!" A brief pause will follow the word 
country, and then at the 

Seventh Signal — Each scholar, still standing erect, but without 
moving, will exclaim: "One Country!'^ (emphasis on country.) 



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Eighth Signal — The scholars, still standing motionless, will ex- 
claim: "One Language!" (emphasis on language.) 

Ninth Signal — The right arm is suddenly extended to its full 
length, the hand pointing to the flag, the body inclining slightly 
forward, supported by the right foot slightly advanced, the atti- 
Tude should be that of intense earnestness ; the pupil reaches, as it 
icere. toxoard the flag, at the same time exclaiming with great force 
— ''One plag!" 

Tenth Signal — The right arm is dropped to the side and the 
positon of attention is recovered. 

Eleventh Signal — Each scholar seizes the seat preparatory to 
turning it down. 

Twelfth Signal — The school is seated. 

THE FLAG BEAKER. 

The color-bearer, standing where all can see him, grasps the 
staff at the lower end with his right hand, and a foot or more (ac- 
cording to the length of the staff) above the lower end of the staff 
with his left hand. The s'aff is held directly in front of the middle 
of the body, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular. At 
the fourth signal the flag will be dipped, returning the salute; this 
is done by lowering the left hand until the staff is nearly hori- 
zontal, keeping it in that position until the te^ith signal, when it 
will be restored to its first or nearly vertical position. 

Geo. T. Balch. 



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III. RESOLUTION DECLARING THE A DIVI ISSION OF 

THE STATE OF ALABAMA INTO THE UNION. 

APPROVED DECEMBER 14, 1819. 



Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 
second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, 
entitled "An Act to enable the people of the Alabama Territory to 
form a constitution and State government, and for the admission 
of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the ori- 
ginal States." the people of the said Territory did, on the second 
day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that 
purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State government, 
which constitution and State government, so formed, is republi- 
can, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact 
between 'he original States and the people and States in the terri- 
tory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of 
.July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, so far as the 
same have been extended to the said territory by the articles of 
agreement be' ween the United States and the State of Georgia: 

Resolved Mj. the Senate and House of Representatives of Kie 
United States of America, in Congress assembled. That the State 
of Alabama shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the 
United States of America, and admitted in'o the Union on an equal 
footing with the origipal States, in all respects whatever. — U. 8. 
Statutes at Large, vol. ill, p. 608. 



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IV. LAND OF THE SOUTH. 

BY ALEXANDER B. MEEK. 

Land of the South! imperial land! 

How proud t\iY mountains rise! 
How sweet thy scenes on every hand! 

How fair thy covering skies! 
But not for this. — oh, not for these, 

I love thy fields to roam, 
Thou hast a dearer spell to me, — 

Thou art my native home! 

Thy rivers rail their liquid wealth. 

Unequalled, to the sea — 
Thy hills and vallevs bloom with health, 

And green with verdure be! 
But not for thy proud ocean streams, 

Not for thine azure dome, — 
Sweet . Sumy South! I cling to thee — 

Thou art my native home! 

I've stood beneath Italia's clime, 

. Beloved of tale and song, — 

On Helvyn's h'lls, proud and sublime. 

Where nature's wonders throng; 
By Tempe's classic sunlit streams. 

Where Gods, of old, did roam, — 
But ne'er have found so fnir a land 

As thou, my native hom.e! 

And thou hast prouder glories too. 

Than nature ever gave, — 
Peace sheds o'er thee her genial dew. 

And Freedom's pinions wave, — 
Fa'r science flings her pearls around. 

Religion lifts her dome — 
These, these endear thee, to my heart, — 

My own, loved native home! 

And "heaven's best gift to man" is thine,— 

God bless thy rosy girls! 
lyike sylvan flower?, they sweetly shine, — 

Their hearts are pure as pearls! 
And grace and goodness circle them. 

Where'er their foo' steps roam, — 
How can I then, whilst loving them. 

Not love my native home! 

Lajid of the South! Imperial land! 

Then here's a health to thee, — 
Long as thy mountain barr'ers stand, 

May'st thou be blest and free! 
Mav dark dis?ension's banner ne'er 

Wave o'er thy fertile loam, — 
Bu' should it come, there's one will die 

To save his native home! 



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V. SUMMARY OF ALABAMA HISTORY. 



BY JOEL C. DU BOSE. 



While the explorations of Garay under direct command of 
Pineda in 1529, may have touched the present territory of 
Alabama, the expedition of Pampnilo de Narvaez. 1528 to 1530. was 
probably the first to enter its forests. With confident cer- 
tainty is the conclusion that the coastal region of our State 
was traversed by Cabeza de Vaca and three companions, the 
only survivors of the storm-wrecked vessels of De Narvaez. A de- 
cade later, July 2. 1540, Hernando de Soto led his Spanish cavaliers 
upon Alabama soil in what is now the county of Cherokee. Pass- 
ing down the river valleys he fought and vanquished the brave 
Tuskaloosa at Mauvilla on October 18, 1540, — a battle pronounced 
the fiercest and greatest in the annals cf Indian warfare. More 
than a hundred and fifty years of darkness then fell on the history 
of this section. In 1702 Iberville settled Fort Lou'is de la Mobile 
at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff, on the Mobile river. Iberville died in 
1706. A great river-overflow submerged Fort Louis in 1709, and 
present site of Mobile, and removing to it his French and Indan 
subjects in 1711. he made it the capital of Louisiana, and 
there inaugurated his wonderful colonization schemes which 
have made his name revered. In 1763 the Treaty of Paris trans- 
ferred to Great Britain the French possessions east of the Mississ- 
ippi, excepting New Orleans and the Isle of Orleans, which were 
granted to Spain. Don Bernardo Galvez, the young Spanish gov- 
ernor of Louisiana, took Mobile from the British on March 14, 1780, 
and Pensacola on March 9, 1781. The independence of her Ameri- 
can colonies wrung from England her possessions down to 
3j.° North latitude, and a year later England gave to Spain 
a warrant of Florida on which Spain claimed the territory 
to 32° 28" North. This created a long contest between Spain and 
the United States for the territory between the two parallels. In 
1813 Gen. James Wilkinson captured Mobile, and transferred it 
permanently to the proection of the United States. The Creek war 
beginning with the battle of Burnt Corn in 1813. left the bloody 
massacres of Forts Mims and Sinquefield, was broken by the 
battles at Holy Ground and Horse Shoe Bend, and decreed Indian 
removal to the west. Then began the inrush of immigrants. On 
March 1, 1817, Congress divided the Mississippi Territory, and two 



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days later organized the Territory of Alabama. William Wyatt 
Ril/b, its first Governor, convened the Legislature at St. Stephens 
on Jan. 19, 1818, and again on Nov. 2, 1818. On March 2, 1819, Con- 
gress passed the Enabling Act, which permitted the people of Ala- 
bama Territory to prepare a constitution for its admission into the 
Union. At Huntsville, the next temporary capital, the original con- 
stitution was framed, and on Dec. 14, 1819, Alabama became a State 
in the Union. Agricultural interests were supreme. The State 
throve. Following secession in 1861 came four years of war, with 
attendant horrors of death and disaster. But the tides of progress 
are agaiPx upon the State. Her minerals, her rich soil, her timber, 
and her salubrious climate make her an envied heritage of a strong, 
liberty-loving people. 



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VI. EXTRACT FROIVi THE ADDRESS OF WILLIAM 

L. YANCEY IN THE SECESSlUN CONVENTION 

OF ALABAMA, JANUARY 11, 1861. 



Some have been disposed to think that this is a movement of 
the politicians, and not of the people. This is a great error. Who, 
on a calm review of the past, and reflection upon v^^hat is daily 
occurring, can reasonably suppose that the people of South Caro- 
lina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana who 
have already elected conventions favorable to dissolution, and the 
people of Arkansas. Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia were 
contemplating an assembling in their several conventions, have 
been mere puppets in the bands of politicians? Who can for a 
moment thus deliberately determine that all these people, in these 
various States, who are so attached to their government, have so 
little intelligence that they can be thus blindly driven into revolu- 
tion, without cause, by designing and evil minded men, against the 
remonstrances of conservative men? No, sir! This is a great popu- 
lar movement, based upon la widespreaa, deep-seated conviction 
that the forms of government have fallen into the hands of a sec- 
tional majority, determined to use them for the destruction of the 
rights of the people of the South. This mighty flood-tide has been 
flowing from the popular heart for years. You, gentlemen of the 
minority, have not been able to repress it. We of the majority have 
not been able to add a particle to its momentum. We are each 
and all driven forward upon this irresistible tide. The rod that 
has smitten the rock from which this flood flows, has not been in 
Southern hands. The rod has been Northern and sectional aggres- 
sion and wrong, and that flood-tide has grown stronger and stronger 
as diays and years have passed away, in proportion as the people 
have lost all hope of a constitutional and satisfactory solution of 
these vexed questions. — From William R. Smith's History and De- 
bates of the Convention of Alabama, pp. 113-114. 



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VII. DIXIE. 



(The original version is given, followed by words adapted to the 
same tune, written by Mrs. 1. M. P. Ockenden and Miss Julia S. 
Tutwiler. The teacher can use the one preferred.) 



DIXIE'S LAND. 

(Original version.) 

BY UAMIEL DECATT^B EMMETT. 

I wish I wuz in de land ob cot*^on; 
Old times dar am not forgotten; 

Look away! look awav! look away! 
Dixie land. 
In Dixie land, whar I wuz born in, 
Early on one frosty mornin', 

Look away! look away! look away! 
Dixie land. 

Chorns: 

Den I wish I were in Dixie, hooray! hooray! 

In Dixie land 
I'll took my stand 
To lib and die in Dix''e. 

Away, laway, away down South in Dixie. 
Away, laway, away down South in Dixie. 

Old Missus marry "Will-de-weaber," 
William was a gay deceaber; 

Look away! etc. 
But when he put his arm around 'er. 
He smiled as fierce as a forty pounder. 

Look away! etc. 

Chorus — Den 1 wish I was in Dixie, etc. 

His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaber, 
But dat did rot seem to greab 'er; 

I ook away! etc. 
Old M'ssus acted de foolish par\ 
And died for a man dat broke her heart. 

Look away! etc. 

Chorus — Den I wish I was in Dixie, etc. 



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Now here's a health to the next old Missus, 
And all de gals dat want to kiss us; 

Look away! etc. 
But if j'ou want to drive 'way sorrow. 
Come and hear dis song to-morrow, 

Look away! etc. 

Chorus — Den I wish I was in Dixie, etc. 

Dar's buckwheat cakes an Ingen' oatter, 
Makes you fat or a little fatter; 

Look away! etc. 
Den hoe it down an scratch your grabble, 
To Dixie's land I'm bound to trabble, 

Look away, etc. 

Chorus — Den I wish I was in Dixie, etc. 



AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE. 



BY MRS. I. M. P. OCKENDEN, OF MONTGOMERY. 



1. In Dixie cotton loves to grow. 

With leaf of green and ball of snow; 
Here wave the golden wheat and corn. 
In Dixie land where I was born — 

Come awaj'^ down South in Dixie. 

Chorus: 

2. In Dixie gayest roses bloom. 

The jasmine yields its rare perfume; 
And here the sea-breeze haunts the South, 
With orange blossoms in his mouth — 
Come away down South in Dixie. 

3. In Dixie land we love to give 
With generous hand — -we love to live 
With cheerful light and open door: 
What matter if the wind doth blow? 

The heart is warm in Dixie. 

4. The Dixie skies are bonnie blue, 

And Southern hearts are warm and true. 
Let there be love throughout the world. 
The pure white flag of peace unfurled 
Floats away down South in Dixie. 



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5. In Dixie it is sweet to rove 

Throiigli piney woods and sweet-gum grove; 
And hark! tlie rebel mocking bird 
With sweetest song you ever heard, 
Sings away down South in Dixie. 

6. In o'her lands 'tis sweet to roam, 
But Dixie land is home, sweet home, 
And Southern maid, with simple song, 
Loves dear old Dixie, right or wrong, 

God bless the land of Dixie! 



DIXIE NOW. 

Respectfully dedicated to the Blue and Gray, written for their First 
Grand Reunion at Atlanta. 



BY .JITLIA S. TUTWILER. 



Now changed to reaping hook the saber, 

Wasteful war to wealthful labor. 

And huray! and huray§ and huray! Dixie Land! 

Waving grain the fields renewing. 

And huray! and huray! Dixie Land! 

Chorus — 

I'm glad I am in Dixie, 

Huray! Hxiray! 
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand. 
To live and work for Dixie; 

Huray! Huray! for North and South in Dixie! 

Huray! Huray! for North and South in Dixie! 

Now, for the steeds to battle springing. 
Last! the ploughboy — whistling — singing! 
And huray! and huray! and huray! Dixie Land; 
Now for the musketry's fierce rattle. 
Bleating flocks and lowing cat*le. 
And huray! and huray! and huray! Dixie Land! 
Chorus — 

Now. for the cannon's doomful roaring, 
Molten streams from foundries pouring. 
And huray! and hurav! and huray! Dixie Land! 
Now, for the fiery fifing-drumming. 
Hark, the factory's busy humming. 
And huray! and huray! and huray! Dixie Land! 
Chorus — 



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4. Now glorious destinies before us, 
Heavenly benedictions o'er us, 
And huray! and huray! and huray! Dixie Land! 
Now in the world's great federation, 
Chosen people — foremost nation, 
And huray! and huray! and huray! Dixie Land! 

Chorus — 

I'm glad I am in Dixie, 

Huray! Huray! 
In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand, 
To live and work for Dixie; 
Huray! Huray! for North and South in Dixie' 
Huray! Huray! for North and South in Dixie! 



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VIII. A BALLAD OF EIVIMA SANSOM. 



I!Y JOHX T.JOTWOOD ftlOORE. 



(To be recited in whole or in part, at the option of the teacher.) 

1. The courage of nuan is one thing, but that of a maid is more, 
For blood is blood, and death is death, and grim is the battle 

gore. 
And the rose that blooms, tho' blistered by the sleet of an 

open sky. 
Is fairer far than its sis'ers are who sleep in the hot house 

nigh. 

2. Wiord came up to Forrest that Streight was on a raid — 
Two thousand booted bayonets were riding down the glade. 
Eight thousand were before him — he was holding Dodge at bay, 
But he turned on his heel like the twist of a steel, 

And was off at the break of day. 

3. Six hundred troopers had he — game as a Claiborne cock — 
Tough as the oak root grappling with the gray Sand Mountain 

rock; 
And they fou.ght like young Comanches, by the flash of the 

Yankee gun — 
And they fell at the ford, and shot as they rode. 
And fought from sun to sun. 

4. But Streight went whirling southward with never a limp or 

lag,— 
His front was a charging huntsman, but his rear was a 

hounded stag! 
For the graj troops followed after, their saddle blankets wet 
With the bloody rack from their horses' back — 
And Streight not headed yet! 

5. A fight to the death in the valley, and a fight to the dea'h on 

the hill. 
But still Streight thunder'd southward, and Forrest followed 

still. 
And the goaded hollows bellow'd to the bay of the rebel gun — 
For Forrest was hot as a solid shot 
When its fights is just begun. 



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6. A running fight in the morning and a charging fight at noon, 
Till spurs clung red and reeking around their bloody shoon — 
The morning star paled on them, but the evening star rose red 
As the bloody tinge of the border fringe 

That purpled the path of the dead. 

7. A midnight fight on the mountain, and a daybreak fight in 

the glen, 
And when Streight stopped for water he had lost three hundred 

men. 
But he gained the bridge at the river and planted his batteries 

there. 
And the halt of the gray was a hound at bay. 
And the blue — a wolf in his lair. 

8. And out from the bridg-c ^o the river a white heat lightning 

came. 
Like the hungry tongues of a forest fire, with the autumn 

woods aflame; 
And the death-smoke burst above them, and the death-heat 

blazed below. 
But the men in gray cheered the smoke away. 
And bared their breasts to the blow. 

0. Should they storm the bridge at the river through melting 

walls of fire, 
.And die in the brave endeavor to plant their standard higher? 
Should they die at the bridge on the river, or die where they 

stood in their track, 
Like a through-speared boar, with death at his door, 
But tossing the challenge back? 

10. "To the ford! To the ford!" rang the bugle — "and fiank the 

enemy out!" 
And quick to the right the gray lines wheel and answer with 

a shout. 
But the river was mad and swollen — to left — to right — no fnrd — 
And still the sting of the maddened thing 
At the bridge, and still the goad. 

1!. "To the ford! To the ford!" rang the bugle — "to the ford — 

retreat or die!" 
And still the flail of a bullet hail from out of a mortar sky — 
And they s^ood like a blue bull, wounded, in wallowing mud 

and mire, 
And still the flash from the deadly lash 
And still the barbs of fire. 



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12. Then out from a nearby cabin a mountain maiden came, 

Her ciieeks wei'e banks of snow drifts, but her eyes were skies 

of flame. 
'And she drew her sun bonnet closer as the bullets whispered 
' low — 

(Lovers of lead, and one of them said: 
I'll clip a curl as I go!") 

13. Straight through the blistering bullets she fled like a hunted 

doe. 

While the hound-guns down at the river bayed in her wake 
below. 

And around, their hot breath shifted, and behind, their patter- 
ing feet, 

But still she fled through the thunder red. 

And still through the lightning sleet. 

li. And she stood at the General's stirrup, flushed as a mountain 

rose, 
When the sun looks down in the morning, and the gray mist 

upward goes. 
She stood at the General's stirrup and this was all she said: 
"I'll lead the way to the ford to-day — 
I'm a girl; but I'm not afrau.." 

15. How the gray troops thronged around her! And then the rebel 

yell— 
With that brave girl to lead them they would storm the gates 

of hell! 
And they toss her behind tue General, and again the echoes 

woke. 
For she clung to him there with her floating hair 
As the wild vine clings to the oak. 

16. Down through the bullets she led them, down through an un- 

used road, 
And, when the General dismounted to use his glass on the ford. 
She spread her skirts before him (the troopers gave a cheer) : 
"Better get behind me. General. 
For the bullets will hit you here!" 

X.. And then the balls came singing and ringing quick and hot. 
But the gray troops gave them ball for ball and answer shot 

for shot. 
"They have riddled your skirt." the General said, "I must take 
you out of this din." 
'■ -'Dh, that's all right," she answered light — 
"They are wounding my crinoline!" 

18. And then, in a blaze of beauty, her sun bonnet off she took. 
Right in the front she waived it high and at their lines it 

shook. 
And the gallant blue coats cheered her — ceased firing to a man, 
And the gray coats rode through the bloody ford. 
And again the race began. 



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19. Do you wonder they rode like Romans adown the winnowing 

wind. 
With Mars himself in die saddle and Minerva up behind? 
Was ever a brave foe captured and conquered by such means 
Since days of old, and warriors bold, 
And the maiden of Orleans? 

20. The courage of man is one thing, but that of a maid is more. 
For blood is blood, and death is death, and grim is the battle 

gore. 
And the rose that blooms, tho' blistered bj^ the sleet of an open 

sky, 
Is fairer far than its sisters are who sleep in the hot house 

nigh. 



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XII. AMERICA. 



BY SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH. 



1 . My country, 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I sing; 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrim's pride, 
From every mountain side 
Let freedom ring. 

2. My native country, thee. 
Land of the noble free, 

Thy name I love; 
I love thy rocks and rills. 
Thy woods and templed hills; 
My heart with rapture tnrills 

Like that above. 

3. Let music swell the ureeze, 
And ring from all the trees, 

Sweet freedom's song; 
Let mortal tongues awake, 
Let all that breathe partake, 
I-/et rocks their silence break, 

The sound prolong. 

4. Our father's God, to Thee, 
Author of liberty. 

To Thee we sing; 
Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light; 
Protect us by Thy might. 

Great God, our King, ' 



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